it sits on four tetonic plants on top of each other releasing massive amount of energy. the place is hit by 20% of the world's earthquake with magnitude six or higher. if we get more details we'll bring them to you here on "america's newsroom". martha: we'll talk about the jobs number that came in this morning. this is the november number. down to 7.7%. that is the lowest number we've seen since december of 2008. but the internal numbers look like this. the labor department says that 350,000 people dropped out of the workforce and stuart varney feels that number is very significant. he joins me now. host of "varney & company". good morning, stuart. >> morning martha. bill:. martha: talk to me about both those numbers. >> that 7.7% rate first announced that was a surprise. it had not been expected to go down. then you dig within the numbers you come up with that very important number, 350,000. that is by how many people the labor force shrank, contracted. when you take out 350,000 from the total workforce, then you do get the unemployment rate coming down. so that number,